end of summer book recommendations

August slips awayyyy....

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[smittenforfiction]

I think I know what you mean...Call Me By Your Name gave me that late summer vibe.

[julischrier]

Gatsby as a summer read is so true… there’s a line from when Nick’s drunk in the apartment in NYC with Tom and his friends about the stifling heat that I always think about this time of year. I looove how you talk about summer and August especially;; you’re making me want to pull quotes straight from this video lol. This is a great list! Bumping The Stranger and Annihilation up to the top of my tbr 💪

[renni]

Clarice Lispector is my clarion call, I love her immensely. Água Viva is definitely a good starting place, I actually read her complete stories first, which was not the easiest beginning. I'd planned to just read a couple stories but i was immediately obsessed with her writing style I kept going. The Hour of the Star is her most well known work, amazing, but isn't my favorite. An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures might be my favorite from the sheer amount of underlining I did in it. I only began reading her works about 2 years ago and I'm not rushing through so there's a bunch a still haven't read. Exciting because shes still getting new translations! I am so happy for you to be able to go on the journey into her work, there's been stories by her that didn't grab me as much, but nothing I thought was bad or not worth the time to read. I've begun reading bits of Too Much Life, a compilation of the weekly column she wrote for a local newspaper, its so close but different from her prose. Like you said her writing is almost like thinking, I've never read something that articulates so well thoughts/feelings I never thought I could share. So her writing about little bits about life, the mundane and culture meditations is so fun!
Reading her work also lead me to Benjamin Moser who wrote the only(?) English language biography about her, which I absolutely loved. He has also translated a few of her books. He has such admiration and reverence for her work, it made reading his biography of her so fun. He also won the Pulitzer for a biography of Susan Sontag, I haven't read it yet, and I've only read one of her books, Regarding the Pain of Other's, but she's an author whose work I want to get into. Have you read anything by her before? He also published a book last year about the Dutch Gold Age of Art called The Upside Down World and I thought it was really lovely if you like art history things.
I could go on more but I'll leave it there. Made me happy to watch another video from you :)

[EllleTV]

Amberly can u do a speculative fiction recommendations? I know u loved I who have never known men, I did too but I havent found anything that gets me like that yet... i know ur the right girlie for this u got The Taste

[mrlately]

U speak beautifully please keep posting

[andgraciewashername]

i've jus preordered the new edition of 'autobiography or red' and now even more excited to read! currently winter here in Australia but definitely going to add east of eden to my reading list for summer!